Following indications yesterday that more accounts were being granted access to the Diablo III beta test, the Diablo III Website announces the beta will indeed be opened this weekend to anyone with a Battle.net account for stress testing. The open portion of the beta will begin at 3:00 pm EDT today and will run through Monday at 1:00 pm EDT. The accompanying FAQ explains how this will operate, and notes that while Korean players cannot participate, they will be holding a separate invitation-only event in Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. The invitation only closed beta will continue as planned until May 1st. To get a head start, you can download the client now from Battle.net.

RollinThundr wrote on Apr 20, 2012, 19:08:No lets just streamline it down so the masses of below level intelligence won't have to work for a decent set up.

Yeah, because we're all dorks with no life that love to WORK at a video game like it's a job... That's real fun...

Um yeah, I work 45 hours a week sometimes more, that doesn't mean I need my hand held when playing an RPG. Some of us do like to use our brains during downtime.

It does seem rather mindless, yeah.

Shame on the people who are excited about the online auction house. It means Blizzard got you right where they want you through shear manipulation. Let me break it to you: The online AH is NOTHING but a way of making the game pirate-proof by needing to be online all the fucking time and get away with it. Where at other games who pull the online crapjoke people moan "I'm a soldat and wantz to play on my laptop damnit!", with Blizz' mindtrick they're like "Oh cool! *<8-D"